Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is giving Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a run for her money when it comes to posting hunting pictures online.
The top Trump official took to X on Monday to share a series of pictures of a python hunt in the Florida Everglades on Sunday in a MAGA-styled display of predator versus prey.
The agriculture secretary donned a camo MAGA hat for her adventure into the wetlands and was photographed grinning as she held the python just below its head, with the rest of its body draped across her shoulders. Another image displayed the massive snakeâs fangs.
âLast night I joined a python hunt in the Florida Everglades!â she wrote on X.
âGot hands-on with Floridaâs invasive species problem,â she continued. âLearned how to wrangle those slithery giants like a pro, joined a heart-pounding hunt under the swampâs moonlight, & saw up close how these pythons disrupt the Ecosystem. Whoâs ready to join the hunt?â
Her post even started with the line âLOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!â and the snake emoji, an apparent nod to the song from Taylor Swiftâs Reputation album, which prominently used snake symbolism.
Rollinsâ display of her hunting prowess harkened back to similar images her colleague Noemânickamed âICE Barbieâ for her love of dolling up for the cameras on ICE raids and in front of detainees, among other bizarre publicity stuntsâhas shared, including posing with a dead bear in 2023 and a dead moose in 2024.
Noem was governor of South Dakota at the time of her bear hunt and headed up to Saskatchewan, Canada, to go after black bears in a hunt that cost $3,500 a person at the time, according to a local press report.
Last fall, the now-homeland security secretary also headed to Yukon to participate in a moose hunt. In a video documenting the hunt, she excitedly called killing a moose one of her âdreamsâ while posing with the dead animal.
Neither species in Noemâs case was considered an invasive species, unlike the python in Florida.
The homeland security secretary, unlike Rollins, also has another animal-killing moment to her name that would have ended many a political career before the Trump era, when she wrote in her 2204 book about killing her 14-month-old dog Cricket.
Rollinsâ python hunt comes as snakes from around the world have taken up residence in the Everglades over the last decade, according to the National Park Service. The Burmese python is the most problematic of the snakes slithering in and damaging the local ecosystem.
Python hunting is a year-round activity in the Sunshine State on both private and public lands. Thereâs even an annual Florida Python Challenge where participants kill as many pythons as possible in an effort to remove the evasive species. This yearâs competition wrapped up Sunday.
